Lady Diana Spencer Beauclerk

Standard Name: Beauclerk, Lady Diana Spencer

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Friends, Associates Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their...

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10 March 1768: Lord Bolingbroke divorced his wife, the former...

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10 March 1768

Lord Bolingbroke divorced his wife, the former Lady Diana Spencer , for her adultery with Topham Beauclerk , though his own infidelities were well known in society.
Rizzo, Betty. “Decorums”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 149-67.
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